Background
He was born in Kirchberg in the Electorate of the Palatinate.
He was born in Kirchberg in the Electorate of the Palatinate.
Leaving Germany, he spent time in England, at Boston, Lincolnshire with John Cotton, by 1628. He was subsequently a minister at Dorchester in England from some point before 1630. He is said to have arrived there in 1626 and become a curate to John White in 1627.
He left Dorchester, in 1631, to attend Elizabeth of Bohemia.
He continued to be involved in the collection of money for refugees. At Heidelberg in 1635, Rulicius was a pastor of the English Reformed Church, Amsterdam in 1636, acting as assistant to John Paget.
And remaining to 1639, or leaving in 1637. He was briefly considered by the "conformist" faction for a post to succeed the non-conformist Samuel Balmford in the English church in the Hague, but rejected because his command of English and Dutch was seen to be lacking and it was not certain where Rulicius stood in conformist and non-conformist contention.
Afterwards Rulicius moved to the German church in Amsterdam, and formed an association with Johann Moriaen of the Hartlib Circle.
This plan was launched first in 1641, when Comenius was on his way to England, on behalf of Louis de Geer. Rulicius with Moriaen had distributed many copies of works by Comenius, for Hartlib, but found the proposal was misunderstood. Among his other correspondents was Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld.